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The Bahá'í Faith is established in more than 100,000 localities in virtually every country and territory around the world. Traveling promoters of the religion played a significant role in spreading the religion into most countries and territories during the second half of the 20th century, [ 1 ] mostly seeded out of North America by the ...
All Bahá'í Houses of Worship have a nine-sided shape as well as nine pathways leading outward and nine gardens surrounding them. [155] There are currently eight "continental" Bahá'í Houses of Worship and some local Bahá'í Houses of Worship completed or under construction. [48] The Bahá'í writings also envision Bahá'í Houses of Worship ...
He prepared many compilations of Bahá'í writings, commentaries, apologetic works, and historic studies. Ali Murad Davudi - (1922–1979?) was an Iranian Baháʼí who was a member of the national governing body of the Baháʼís in Iran.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
The Bahá'í Historical Record Survey was an early demographic review of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States and Canada done circa 1934-1936. The backgrounds of Bahá'ís were later studied in a number of ways - racial and ethnic heritage, previous religious background, geographical spread and sometimes how these have changed over the years.
Affairs of Bahá’í communities are administered, in most countries, [u] using Bahá’í principles of consultation [189] and collective decision-making. [190] As there is no clergy in the Bahá’í Faith, [191] [v] no individual Bahá’í has the authority to tell another how to think or what to do. [193]
A diagram of the present Baháʼí administrative order. The Baháʼí administration includes both elected and appointed institutions. Governing bodies consisting of nine members are elected annually at both local and national levels, and every five years members of all National Spiritual Assemblies gather to elect the Universal House of Justice, an international governing body which ...
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, son of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, visited the United States and Canada in 1912. [1]ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916–1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled Tablets of the Divine Plan.